Welcome to designbreak.org a website specifically for collaborating on science, social and engineering projects with a global and humanitarian focus. designbreak.org is run by a 501(c)(3) non-profit, designbreak, which is dedicated to providing the support these projects need to go from internet collaborations, to a real impact on the world. Please see the about page for more information.
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Active Projects
There already are different types of pool chair lifts available for sale in most economically privileged countries. (Some examples of this are...
International Collaboration Format
The idea of this project is to develop a format for writing a text is such a way that it can be better (more coherent) translated using a translation...
designbreak-bugs
This project is about reporting the bugs in the designbreak website. Please feel free to report the bugs.
Physical Data Repository
The objective of this project is not to collect data of the sort that would be found in the NIST web page. Inventors often times need to know...
FoodPrint
Once upon a time, humans foraged, hunted, and grew our own food. We have since lost that connection with that which nourishes us. The process that...
Chronic Beryllium Disease
Investigating the thermodynamics of formation for Be-Peptide complexes inside alveolar macrophage phagolysosomes using computational methods is an...
Underwater Geothermal Power
A map of underwater geothermal vents A similar discussion to this one
floating greenhouses
This project is about designing ways to grow large amounts of food at sea. The majority of the world's surface area is water. This means the the...
Recent Discussion Items and Blog Entries
I think this is a really good idea, we need to research how google translate works. zac
designbreak-bugs -- Logout while switching languages
Hi, (its me the good Gabe, not the evil-looking administrator Gabe) I wanted to point out that I often get logged-out when I switch languages. Why...
designbreak-bugs -- Internal eMail system
I can reply to someone's messages, but when I try to write a new message, I can't put someone's name in the recipient's place
designbreak -- some suggestions for designbreak
I have a suggestion for designbreak--when a project you are on is updated, you can choose to receive email updates. What do you think?
naloijos
I read the article, 'The Impact of Environment Labelling on Consumer Preference: Negative Vs. Positive Labels', and it had some interesting...
naloijos
I found an article that is about a label that has been developed called 'Nordic Environmental Label'. It is similar to what we are doing I found a...
FoodPrint -- Tescos & Carbon Footprint
Are you guys aware that the British supermarket Tescos is implementing a carbon footprint on the products they sell? see this and...
nileshf
I think it would be nice to have some text editing tools that let us side-step HTML coding when posting in blogs or projects. Can't be that hard,...